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It's all the people who joined right after the election. If you weren't one of them, you're fine.
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austin dsa meeting was 5000x better and more chill, a certain notable group of people were suspiciously absent. im the only cop left in the branch
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i'm in socialist night school
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Annual Prophet posted:apologies, danton; here you go: Thanks for this, by the way!
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Notes from BUM branch meeting: All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose, while it is a sick Billy Bragg jam, is not a great song to sing as a group. Also I'm going after my landlord as a class action plaintiff
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achillesforever6 posted:I signed up in the middle of the year, wait is the DSA one of those places where your dues are only good for the year you signed up for?
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Zikan posted:I know it was gonna be bad but what’s the source on this I was just at a town hall. One of the NPC members said it in her speech.
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Ol Standard Retard posted:while it is a sick Billy Bragg jam, WTF! 
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:yearlys aren't autorenews oh poo poo really? do you at least get a notification?
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Ol Standard Retard posted:Notes from BUM branch meeting: All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose, while it is a sick Billy Bragg jam, is not a great song to sing as a group. just sing the red flag, especially since its almost december
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Nov 17, 2017 04:18
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on hold with sex line posted:12,000 member dues lapsed this week. Yikes lmao ofc
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they really need to switch to only monthly dues that automatically recur. paying for a year of membership is silly
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I saw it get one mention in an email telling people to renew, not really getting the word out hard enough
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Taintrunner posted:I saw it get one mention in an email telling people to renew, not really getting the word out hard enough should probably be "hey your membership runs out next month/week" emails.
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Yeah, it's because they're not notifying people of membership expiring. Our chapter started talking about doing phone banking to our local members to get people to renew. Like... what the gently caress? How is even this most basic of things not in place? At this point I don't know why any of this type of stuff surprises me. In other news, tonight our chapter went to a townhall put on by one of our candidates running for governor. We were half the crowd. 
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Nov 17, 2017 04:52
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There were only 12,000 people that joined the week after the election, weren't there? Also, my wife and I renewed as monthly contributors.
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Nov 17, 2017 05:44
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They'll get most of those cats back, and if Jacobin runs a big thing on the candidates that were elected they'll get a lot more.
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Nov 17, 2017 06:11
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The actual active organizing, doing stuff, DSA is like 5-7,000 people, but if you're going by that metric most left "orgs" are like a couple hundred people so it doesn't really matter too much, I'm sure the situation will change in 2018 midterms then again drastically as the 2020 election ramps up. I think the key to capitalizing on those time frames is building a framework that will be ready when that surge happens. (DSA will hit 50k in 2018)
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Comedians aren't funny Barry Crimmins is alright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FChmOC-Qjw
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Ol Standard Retard posted:Notes from BUM branch meeting: All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose, while it is a sick Billy Bragg jam, is not a great song to sing as a group. they tried to sing that song AGAIN!?!?! It went over like a wet lead balloon during the October meeting, I figured they'd switch it back to Solidarity forever for at least a couple months. I wasn't able to make it out since work was working me over.
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Goon Danton posted:I know the "I will never read a book" caucus is dominant here, but I read a book (Discipline and Punish) and it was dope. Anyone have any good reading suggestions? I got Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and the Communist Manifesto at a used book store for Yo, read "Reading Capital politically" by Harry Cleaver. It is the loving tome.
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so those will probably be next, but I'm always looking to add more to my list.
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Peven Stan posted:I too believe that a CIA controlled opposition front is the best hope for socialism in Amerikkka When you consider the history of the CIA controlled opposition groups, victory is basically in the bag.
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Ace of Baes posted:The actual active organizing, doing stuff, DSA is like 5-7,000 people, but if you're going by that metric most left "orgs" are like a couple hundred people so it doesn't really matter too much, I'm sure the situation will change in 2018 midterms then again drastically as the 2020 election ramps up. I think the key to capitalizing on those time frames is building a framework that will be ready when that surge happens. (DSA will hit 50k in 2018) with what's been said about renewals ITT and what you wrote about activity in the rest of your post, i don't think this is gonna be happeninng.
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freckle posted:with what's been said about renewals ITT and what you wrote about activity in the rest of your post, i don't think this is gonna be happeninng. look at dsas growth over time and factor in that were still in a non-election year, not even a mid term year, combine that with the fact that poo poo is only going to get worse until at least 2020
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Nov 17, 2017 09:52
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portland went from 5 people last year to like 600 for example
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I tried to start a socialist student org here at my college but I talked to 4 professors to sponsor it. It's required to have a faculty sponsor. 3 of them were told by their department head it was 'better for them' to stay out if politics. The last one told me he was a staunch republican 
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:I tried to start a socialist student org here at my college but I talked to 4 professors to sponsor it. It's required to have a faculty sponsor. You need to look for a professor who is old, tenured, and Russian, ideally in the physical sciences since they were well treated by the old system. Like, imagine a dude in his 70s or so who may or may not have a bottle of vodka in his desk at all times who waxes poetically about building all his own equipment and grad students these days don't *really* understand physics unless they build their own transmission electron microscope.
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Yeah, the key is finding a cranky old tenured scientist who hates the administration and (crucially) not mentioning our intersectional feminist stances until after he signs the paperwork
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Oh don't mention grad student unionization until after the paperwork is in, either
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If you can, walk by the offices of professors and look at what they have hanging on their doors. I've seen professors put unironic pro-communist quotes on their doors before.
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on hold with sex line posted:12,000 member dues lapsed this week. Yikes It seems like they don't send out any kind of reminder when annual memberships are due for renewal? At least, I didn't get anything. Seems like kind of a big oversight. I couldn't remember when I joined so I checked and it was apparently July of last year, meaning I've been lapsed for quite a while now. Fixed that (and went monthly this time), but I bet a lot of people are in a similar position.
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My advice would be to form an underground chapter and then take over buildings with sit-ins until they cave and waive the faculty sponsor rule for you. Or until they mace you, drag you out and expel you. Whichever.
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Hulk Krogan posted:It seems like they don't send out any kind of reminder when annual memberships are due for renewal? At least, I didn't get anything. Seems like kind of a big oversight. This might shock you but the DSA is actually held together by duct tape and string
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the reason it takes weeks to get your membership card is that those packets are put together by one person in DSA’s main office and they do that in addition to a billion other things
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an actual dog posted:This might shock you but the DSA is actually held together by duct tape and string you get duct tape???
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pretty sure our chapter is held together by a single rubber band and heavy drinking
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RL just visited Harvard to give a speech! Can't wait to hear the good rear end praxis he spits! https://twitter.com/meshuggeknight/status/931549574010896384 Oh, turns out he spent a large portion of the time making GBS threads on Carter and explaining that the WWC is racist because they're not educated enough to understand socialism
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2016 Democratic primary chat is dead all hail the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates 50th district chat
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Vhak lord of hate posted:RL just visited Harvard to give a speech! Can't wait to hear the good rear end praxis he spits! I think RL has a lot of good opinions, but he's really lovely and passive agressive towards anyone who doesn't believe in working towards socialism in the exact way he does. Edit: honestly that tweet surprises me considering how much he talks about socializing the south and bringing socialism to the masses long-ass nips Diane has issued a correction as of 17:40 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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no one with a college degree should be on the NPC
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